Where Are The Solutions?

David Frum begs the GOP to tackle the nation's economic hardships. He thinks it's the only way to destroy candidates like Trump:

The GOP establishment has successfully directed those [economically frustrated] emotions [from the GOP base] against the Obama administration. But there’s no guarantee that the emotions will remain fixed in that direction – because after all, the establishment GOP is offering little or nothing to allay the discontents producing the anger. Conservatives like liberals have suffered unemployment, the loss of savings, the decline in housing values. Conservatives like liberals find themselves suddenly poorer for reasons they do not understand. Conservatives like liberals fear and dread that Medicare and Social Security will soon be cut to rescue the country’s finances. If the GOP wants to finish Trump, GOP candidates had better learn to speak to those anxieties – to offer a remedy more effectual than the snake-oil now being peddled by Tim Pawlenty.

Amen. And repeating the failed supply-side doctrines of the 1980s does not suffice.